---
title: "Welcome to Superlinked"
description: "A compute framework for building Search, RAG, Recommendations and Analytics over complex data"
icon: "hand-wave"
---

Superlinked is a Python framework for AI Engineers building <b>high-performance search & recommendation applications</b> that combine <b>structured</b> and <b>unstructured</b> data.

- **WHY**: Improve your vector search relevance by encoding metadata together with your unstructured data into vectors. Read more at [Why Superlinked](/getting-started/why-superlinked)
- **WHAT**: A framework and a self-hostable REST API server that connects your data, vector database and backend services.
- **HOW**: Construct custom data & query embedding models from pre-trained encoders from `sentence-transformers`, `open-clip` and custom encoders for numbers, timestamps and categorical data. See <b>[concepts](/concepts/overview)</b> and <b>[use cases](/use-cases/overview)</b> for examples.

If you like what we do, give us a [star](https://github.com/superlinked/superlinked)! ⭐

![Superlinked framework diagram](/images/sl_diagram.png)

## Discover Superlinked

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<Card title="Getting Started" href="/getting-started/installation" img="/images/getting-started-thumbnails/getting started.png">
  Begin your journey with Superlinked by setting up and understanding the basics.
</Card>

<Card
  title="Concepts"
  href="/concepts/overview"
  img="/images/getting-started-thumbnails/concept.png"
>
  Explore the core ideas and principles behind Superlinked's functionality.
</Card>

<Card
  title="Use Cases"
  href="/use-cases/overview"
  img="/images/getting-started-thumbnails/use cases.png"
>
  Learn how Superlinked can be applied to solve real-world problems.
</Card>

<Card
  title="Reference"
  href="/reference/overview"
  img="/images/getting-started-thumbnails/reference.png"
>
  Access detailed documentation for Superlinked's components.
</Card>

<Card
  title="Changelog"
  href="/changelog"
  img="/images/getting-started-thumbnails/changelog.png"
>
  View the changelog for Superlinked.
</Card>

<Card title="Recipes" href="/recipes/overview" img="/images/getting-started-thumbnails/features.png">
  Explore real-world applications and examples.
</Card>
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## Resources

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<Card title="VectorHub" href="https://superlinked.com/vectorhub" img="/images/resources-thumbnails/vectorhub.png">
  Free and open-sourced learning hub for people interested in adding vector retrieval to their ML stack.
</Card>

<Card title="Vector DB Comparison" href="https://superlinked.com/vector-db-comparison" img="/images/resources-thumbnails/vdb table.png">
  Open-source collaborative comparison of vector databases by Superlinked.
</Card>
</CardGroup>
